Category Archives: Threat Analysis
Tim Eyman backtracks on plan to run “Son of 1053″ in 2012, now says it’s just one of several possibilities
This Friday, we will be one month away from Permanent Defense’s ten year anniversary. During the last decade, we have devoted ourselves not only opposing Tim Eyman and his initiative factory, but watchdogging Eyman as well. And in that time, we’ve repeatedly caught Eyman telling his own followers and the press one thing after he [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1053, Tim Eyman Recycles... Garbage
Whatever happened to “Let the voters decide?”
Earlier today, in lieu of holding a press conference at Secretary of State Sam Reed’s office in the Legislative Building to discuss his plans for 2012, Tim Eyman drafted and began sending out an email to his followers (and the press) announcing that he intends to be active in opposing any and all efforts to [...]
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First day to file initiatives to the people in 2012 is recycling day for Tim Eyman
Today was the first day to file initiatives to the people for the 2012 ballot, and Tim Eyman took advantage, filing five different drafts electronically with Secretary of State Sam Reed’s office. The Elections Division has not yet made the drafts available for download, so we haven’t read through them yet, but we do know [...]
NPI’s Permanent Defense responds to submission of signatures for I-1125
This morning, at the Secretary of State’s Elections Annex at Union and Cherry in Olympia, Tim Eyman and his associates turned in an estimated three hundred and twenty plus thousand signatures for Initiative 1125, paid for by developer and Bellevue Square owner Kemper Freeman, Jr. Although the Secretary of State still has to conduct a [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1125
I-1125 appears to contain an anti-East Link clause
It turns out that Initiative 1125, the toll-restricting measure that Tim Eyman says he intends to qualify for the ballot this year, wouldn’t just restrict the Legislature’s ability to raise revenue for transportation projects using tolls. A review of the measure’s text indicates it also seeks to shut down Sound Transit’s voter-approved East Link project [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1125
When new is old: Eyman’s scheme to restrict tolls based off a recycled provision from failed I-985
Yesterday, through the Associated Press, Tim Eyman announced that he intends to try to qualify an initiative for the 2011 November ballot, after initially planning to take a year off due to lack of access to a wealthy benefactor. The scheme Eyman says he’s running with was filed back in January, and was assigned the [...]
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Retired Sacramento Bee reporter Stephen Green explains how California’s version of 1053 has hurt Golden State
This morning, the Northwest Progressive Institute (NPI) Advocate published a special guest post by retired Sacramento Bee reporter Stephen Green, who covered California’s statehouse for many years. In the post, Green explains how California’s version of 1053 has hurt the Golden State, paralyzing its government and leaving California’s Legislature mired in gridlock. Initiative 1053 does [...]
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Statement on Initiative 1053′s qualification for the ballot
Earlier today, Secretary of State Sam Reed’s office announced that Initiative 1053 had passed a random sample check of its signatures, which means it will be on this November’s ballot. NPI and Permanent Defense are responding by kicking efforts to oppose Initiative 1053 into higher gear. “Initiative 1053 may be sponsored by Tim Eyman, but [...]
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PDC reports for June 2010 show that Tim Eyman is rolling in corporate cash
This morning, Tim Eyman sent out another email to his supporters thanking them for their efforts getting Initiative 1053 on the ballot. Eyman wrote: “When Olympia sidesteps a law like I-960 (which voters approved in 2007), they count on the citizens to not have the energy or enthusiasm to roll that boulder back up the [...]
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